Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.