“Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.”

“Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.”

“Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.”

“He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.”

“Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.”

“We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.”

“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet ...”

“The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!”

“I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul”