One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.