You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

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?

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.