Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this |
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. |
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. |
Three may keep counsel, if two are away. |
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains |
To a valet no man is a hero |
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability |
To act is easy; to think is hard |
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. |
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. |
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state |
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. |
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden. |
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. |
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities |