“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine”

“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life”