For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

The best path through life is the highway.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.