Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.