No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

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

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.