The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.