A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.