The profit on a good action is to have done it.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.