It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Each day is a little life.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.