Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.