What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.