Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

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.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.