Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.