Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!