“I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.”

“One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda”

“Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what it was to be blown by a fresh breeze on a sun-swept moorland like a heather flower. The hot-house shelters from all chills and is full of perfume, but you can see no horizon from it; that alone is the joy of the moorland.”

“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”

“The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.”

“I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.”

“To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.”