A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.