Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.