The vain being is the really solitary being.

The world is the same everywhere.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.