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.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

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.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

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

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.