It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

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.

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