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.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

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

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.