I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.