To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!