The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.