Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.