The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

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

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.