Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.