The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.