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

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.