1. “Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.”
2. “A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”
3. “In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.”
4. “Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.”
5. “Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation an actual and active work.”
6. “How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.”
7. “If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.”
8. “All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.”
9. “Language makes infinite use of finite media.”
10. “Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.”
11. “Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.”
12. “No matter how good or great man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.”
13. “Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.”
14. “War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.”
15. “Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.”
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