Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.