Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.