The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.