We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.