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

Willing is not enough, we must do.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.