Pity makes suffering contagious.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.