You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.