We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

Willing is not enough, we must do.