Mastery Passes Often For Egotism.

If We Take People Only As They Are, Then We Make Them Worse; If We Treat Them As If They Were What They Should Be, Then We Bring Them To Where They Can Be Brought.

An Actor Should Take Lessons From A Painter And A Sculptor.

Who Is Sure Of Their Own Motives Can In Confidence Advance Or Retreat.

Without My Attempts In Natural Science, I Should Never Have Learned To Know Mankind Such As It Is. In Nothing Else Can We So Closely Approach Pure Contemplation And Thought, So Closely Observe The Errors Of The Senses And Of The Understanding, The Weak And Strong Points Of Character.

He Is Dead In This World Who Has No Belief In Another.