What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.