The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

One must be an inventor to read well.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.