For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.