The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.