I like man, but not men.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.