Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.