“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es”

“No one is exempt from speaking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.”

“The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”

“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it.”