The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.