From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Love, too, has to be learned.