There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.