Stubbornness is not firmness.

Great souls endure in silence.

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

To save all we must risk all.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.