The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.