No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

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.