When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.