The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.