Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

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