When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.