What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

One lives but once in the world.