Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.