What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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.

Man shows his character best in trifles.