Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.