A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.