Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.