On all the peaks lies peace.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Precaution is better than cure.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

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.