When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.