We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

Small aim is a crime have great aim.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.