To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.