Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.