Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

To teach is to learn twice.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.