Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.