For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.