To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.