Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.