In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating quality of the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument - a piano, say, which is a little or…

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - to be got over.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, an…

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.