Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.