One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell