Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

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

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.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?