Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.