If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.