Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.