When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.