Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

Those who never have time do least