If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.