Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?