If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

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.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.