What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.