“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

“The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”

“To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.”

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”

“They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.”

“In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”

“When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.”

“Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.”

“Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.”

“You are born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.”