“Duduk sendirian dibawah sinar lampu,Buku terkembang di depan,Bercakap-cakap secara akrab dengan manusia dari generasi yang tak tampak.Sungguh suatu kenikmatan yang tak bertara”

“Tag für Tag, Monat für Monat verstreicht so, und das Dasein vergeht ungenutzt, weil wir es nicht verstanden.”

“... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”

“Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.”

“As a rule the tales which get abroad in the world are false. . . . People always exaggerate things. More so, when months and years have passed and the place is distant do they relate any story they please, or even it put down in writing, so that at least it becomes established fact. . . . Anyhow, it is a world that is full of lies, and we shall make no mistake if we make up our minds that what we hear is really not at all strange and unusual but merely exaggerated in the telling.”

“It is a great error to be superior to others....It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him abused by others, and invites disaster. A man who is truly versed in any art will of his own accord be clearly aware of his own deficiency; and therefore, his ambition being never satisfied, he ends by never being proud.”