Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
Over a distance of a thousand miles only humanity works, not power.
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
Don't raise your club so high; it will only fall on your head.
Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow.
Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
A gypsy only tells the truth once in his life but he regrets it afterwards.
Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away.
You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
