You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.