No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?