Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Everything can have beauty, even the worst horror.

We must not only think, but also act. Faith without action is delusion. We must not only be pure in thought, but also in word and deed.