If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

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

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.