“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”

“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

“I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!”

“Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.”

“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”