Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.