The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love