Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.