If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.