Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
Character is that which can do without success.
But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.