He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.