The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.