Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.