It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.