Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.