There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.