Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.