Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.