I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.