Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.