I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

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 a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!

Leap and the net will appear.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.