I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark. But which to me is golden, I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world.

There is no education like adversity.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.