Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.