Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

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

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

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.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.