Let us live, while we are alive!

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.