True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.