I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.