“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we…

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.