Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.