Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.