"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look in the storm's …"

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

"The wretched and the miserable should turn to their fellow sufferers rather than to the happy for sympathy and advice."

"Man is but an ass, if he is not an eagle."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."