Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.