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.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

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

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

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