Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.