Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.