It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

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.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.