Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

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

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.