We are free to yield to truth.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
He who praises every body, praises nobody.
