To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart