It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.