To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.