There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
The genuine essence of truth never dies.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.