It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.