Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.