Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.