We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.