I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

The aim of living is life itself.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.