Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.