It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.