What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.