Self-development

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same

The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!

We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life

Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes

The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger