It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?