Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.