The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.