When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education