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.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.