What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.