To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.