...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Your soul is the whole world.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.