Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.