If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!