“Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself”

“One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking”

“The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation”

“Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back”

“Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband”

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming”