“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good, which would be a splendid thing, if it were so. Actually they have neither. They cannot make a man wise or stupid; they simply act at random.”
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”