“am human: nothing human is alien to me.”

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

She never was really charming till she died.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.

Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there’s a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith.

It’s the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Refined food are practically unknown in Russia.

We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.