Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.