Do not hurry; do not rest.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.