He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!