Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.