What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Humility has the toughest hide.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy