Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.