Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.