If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
To create something you must be something.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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