Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

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

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.