Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?