In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.