There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.