Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
I think no virtue goes with size.
Society is a hospital of incurables.