"The most superficial things can have the deepest meaning."

"Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means."

"The secret of life is to live as if one were immortal, and to die as if one were mortal."

"The stranger is close to us insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human nature."

"The brutality of a man purely motivated by monetary considerations … often does not appear to him at all as a moral delinquency, since he is aware only of a rigorously logical behavior, which draws th…"