There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."