The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.