The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Become who you are!

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.