When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.