Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.