I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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