Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

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 rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.