All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!