Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.