The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.