"We need a constitution, we need rules, but we don't need a wall,"

"Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion"

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them."

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."

"Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image"

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."

"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."

"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."

"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."

"Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by."

"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."

"I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music."

"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

"If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own"

"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."

"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."

"Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded."

"To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone."

"There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly)."

"Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."

"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."

"The philosopher must station themselves in the middle."

"The solution of every problem is another problem"

"Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one."

"What is not fully understood is not possessed."

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking"

"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

"All our knowledge is symbolic."

"People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one."

"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do."

"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time."

"We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives."

"Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it."

"Every spoken word arouses our self-will."

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

"The society of women is the element of good manners."

"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."

"The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!"

"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."

"Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."

"If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected"

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

"The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does."