There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

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