One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.