Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Patriotism corrupts history.