Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting.

„Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.