In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.