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.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

To act is easy; to think is hard.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?