“Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.”

“All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!”

“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.”

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”

“The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.”