Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.