Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.