The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.