Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.