No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.