Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.