Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"