To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.