If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!