The maturity of man-
that means, to have acquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

-Marcel Proust