Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.