Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

The aim of living is life itself.

When one is polite in German, one lies.