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

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage