It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

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.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.