"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”

“Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.”

“What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.”

“For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography”

“Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.”

“We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.”

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death”

“When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant”

“The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.”