Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.