I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

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

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.