Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.