He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.