One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.