Children need models rather than critics.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.