All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.