The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.