Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.