In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

First impressions are always unreliable.

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.