This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

A life without music is an error.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.