If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

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

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.