Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.