Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.