The world is full of contradiction.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.