Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.