If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.