To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
A useless life is an early death.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.