Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Over all the mountain tops is peace.