A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.