Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.