No one can transcend their own individuality.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.