The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.