"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"He who makes no secret of himself, enrages."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology."

"I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth."

"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it."

"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place."

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."