Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.