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 school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.