Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."