The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.