Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?