To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

The little man is still a man.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

Let us live, while we are alive!

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.