And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.