We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

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.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.