We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
Despair is the greatest of our errors.
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.