In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.