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.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.