We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.