Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.