If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

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

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.