The happy do not believe in miracles.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.