A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.