What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.