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.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

The world remains ever the same.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.