Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

A world without love would be no world.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.