Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

German diligence is actually endurance.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.