In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.