When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

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

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.