Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.