What in all the world has courage to do with hope? - Julius Bahnsen

[The self is divided within itself], willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills.

The longer I live, the more I feel that the simplest formula for the constancy of my fate is: on a lost watch.

[On Schopenhauer:] I went away conscious that I had seen not only a genius-of ideas, but also a character of the most genuine sublimity . . I felt myself . . . transported into a new existence. Francis of Assisi and the other heroes of asceticism had become my ideals.