Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
The English are a nation of consummate cant.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.