Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.