Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.