For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.