If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.