Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.