Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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