Sleep is no mean art.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.