Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.