"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."

"Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises."

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

"Are you willing to sacrifice all that you are to keep all that you have?"

"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by."

"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted."

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."