Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.