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

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.