If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.