If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

We are wiser than we know.

We must be our own before we can be another's.