Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.