Man is the dwarf of himself.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.