Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

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.