...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest