It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.