Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

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.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.