But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.