If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

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

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.