The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.