Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.