Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

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.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.