What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.