Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.