All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Experience is only half of experience.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.