To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

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

The world is the same everywhere.

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.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

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

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.