What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.