There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

To create something you must be something.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.