The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.