Few men have imagination enough for reality.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.