It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.