What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.