One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

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

To create something you must be something.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.