Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.