Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.