Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.