Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.
The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?