All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.