It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.