To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

He who is resolute conquers grief.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

To act is easy; to think is hard.