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.

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

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

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.

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.