“Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself.”

“A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least everything is human.”

“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”

“I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine.”

“No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement.”

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es”

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”