No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.