...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.