If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.