When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

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.