A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.