When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.