It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

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

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.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

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.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

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.