Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

We learn from failure, not from success!