A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.