The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.