He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

What we don't understand we don't possess.