To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.