We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

On every mountain height is rest.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.