“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”

“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”

“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”

“So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.”

“Interpreting myself, I always readMyself into my books. I clearly needSome help. But all who climb on their own wayCarry my image, too, into the breaking day.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.”