To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.