Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.