The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Few people have the imagination for reality.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.