What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

No one should be rich except those who understand it.