Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.