The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.