Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.