I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time. One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Men are all alike in their promises.
It is only in their deeds that they differ. Things are only worth what you make them worth. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Minds ripen at very different ages.