The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.