Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural and enjoyable.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity, in a girl boldness.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

Love is a trap. When it appears we see only its light, not its shadows.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.

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