The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.