It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?