Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.