The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

What governs men is the fear of truth.