How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.