We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.