Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.