Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

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.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.