Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.