There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.