It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

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

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.