“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”

“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”

“A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”

“Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.”

“A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.”

“The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)”

“Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person whos willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they ca...”

“A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.”

“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a t...”