Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

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

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.