Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?