For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.