Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
The sunshine of the mind.
What is human is immortal!
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, a...
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
