Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Hope is only the love of life.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.