Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.