A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.