He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.