All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

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.

To love another person is to help them love God.

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

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.