...chance may do anything.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.