What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.