“Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.”

“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ”

“Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”

“Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.”

“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which makes him feel his own littleness; the eternal, the infinite, perfection, therefore scare and terrify him. He wishes to approve himself, to admire and congratulate himself; and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.”

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”