Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.