And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.