If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.