The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.