Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.