For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.