Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.