If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

A sky full of silent suns.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.