It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Vocation is the spine of life.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.