Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

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.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.