The religions we call false were once true.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.