All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.