Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.