It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.