I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.