Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.