If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

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

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.