I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.