If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

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.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.