Time flies, and what is past is done.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.