“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's s...”

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrants grip ones faculties rise in revolt and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.”

“I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.”

“Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.”

“We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.”