“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”

“Evolution does not lead to Utopia. It leads to a land in which what is best for a man may be worst for another man, or what is best for a woman may be worst for a man.”

“A wise partner does not come between her man and his best friend.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”

“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”

“And what is there else but pleasure, and to what else does beauty move on?”

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

“Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.”