History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Man makes god in his own image.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.