Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.