About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today