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

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

I never wish to be easily defined.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.