“A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”

“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

“Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?”

“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?”

“It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.”

“The finished man, you know, is difficult to please;a growing mind will ever show you gratitude.--Faust 1, lines 182-3”