A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Originality provokes originality.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.