A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.