At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Great souls are harmonious.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.