The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

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

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.