Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.