Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.