One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.