In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.