Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.