I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.