The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.