In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.