If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

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

Giving is the business of the rich.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Every second is of infinite value.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.