One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.