You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.