"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."

"Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."

"[Water is] the only drink for a wise man."

"The only completely consistent people are the dead."

"For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie."

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads."

"The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike."