To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act, to make use of our organs, senses, faculties — of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know, they do not approve, and what they approve, I do not know.
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!