The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

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

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.