Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.