Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.