Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.