When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.