To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

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

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

(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")

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?