Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education