Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny