Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

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

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

The threshold is the place of expectation.