For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

Let us live, while we are alive!

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.