This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.