Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.