Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.