Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Experience is only half of experience.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.