With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.