“Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.”

“My heart was tightening painfully, as it had after our first parting. Oh, how I was glad of this feeling! Could it be that youth wishes to return to me with its wholesome storms, or is this only its departing glance, its last gift, as a keepsake . . . ?”

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”

“Do you know, Princess," said I with a shade of annoyance, "that one should never spurn a repentant sinner, for out of sheer desperation he may become twice as sinful . . . ”

“If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.”

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

“my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out”