Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.