Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.