You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

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

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.