The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.