Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.