Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!