Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.