There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

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.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.