Life's objective is life itself.
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Let us live while we are alive!
Man must strive and in striving he must err.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
I am what I am so take me as I am!
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Time itself is an element.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
Faith is hidden household capital.
We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your s...
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.