Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.