Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.