Before you can do something, you must first be something.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?