When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.