Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.

The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

If a child tells you a lie, tell him that he has told a lie, but don't call him a liar. If you define him as a liar, you break down his confidence in his own character.

A scholar knows no boredom.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.