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

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.