The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.