Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

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.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.