A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.