“A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.”

“What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.”

“nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.”

“I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.”

“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.”

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”