Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!