Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.