Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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.