Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.