We don't get to know anything but what we love.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

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

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.