The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know