Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men 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.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.