Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.