The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
See your road through.