Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.