Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

One must be something, in order to do something.