Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.