Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?