“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”

“Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.”

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”

“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”