He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

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

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.