Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Thinking evil is making evil.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.