I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Those who live are those who fight.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.