The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.