I shall be content if, because of me, there shall be better fruits and fairer flowers.

The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.

The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

没有艺术；没有文学；没有社会；最糟糕的是，持续的恐惧和暴死的危险；人的生活孤独、贫困、卑污、残忍而短寿。

看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。