A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.