It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.