Time flies, and what is past is done.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Patriotism ruins history.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.