It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.