We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
It’s the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
We are taught for the schoolroom not for life.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
One must steer, not talk.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.