Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.