To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

One should not run on a new road.