Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.