If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

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