The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.