He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

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

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.