Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

The insignificant labor, the great create.