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.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.