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

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!