It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

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