If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.