Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Collectors are happy people.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.