What is gayer than believing in a household god?

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.