One must keep repeating the Truth.

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.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.