The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

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

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.