Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.