I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.