Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.