Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!