They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.