Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.