He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

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

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.