The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.