Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
