Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.