Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.