Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.