How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.