Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.