Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
A useless life is an early death.
An unused life is an early death.
