Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.