They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Experience makes us wise.