The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.