Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.