There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
My home is not a place, it is people.