It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

A man s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

The first wealth is health.