Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
The world remains ever the same.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
All things are only transitory.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The unnatural, that too is natural.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.