The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.