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

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

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

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.