People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.