No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.