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.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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.

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

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

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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