Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.