Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Live dangerously and you live right

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Each one sees what he carries in his heart