You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

He who is resolute conquers grief.

It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.