He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.