"A man's shortcomings are taken from his..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

“Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.”

“Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]”

“Effort is a measure of a Man.”

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”

“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”

“He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”

“I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.”

“One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.”