We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

A useless life is an early death.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life! Each lives it, not to many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

He is happiest who finds peace in his home.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. 

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die.

I am delighted that even at my great age ideas come to me, the pursuit of which would require another lifetime.