For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.