The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.