The best path through life is the highway.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

Analysis kills spontaneity.