Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.