The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.