A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another’s than of our own.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one’s melancholy.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.