To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.