The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

The solution of every problem is another problem

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.