Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work read more

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.

Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best read more

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.rn

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.rn

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.