What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married