The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.