Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Let us live, while we are alive!

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.