Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?