Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.