Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.