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

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again