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

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.